A mother suffocates her baby; above, her vision of demons torturing her as punishment after her own death. Colour woodcut by Kuniaki Utagawa, 1868.
1868]
1 print : woodcut, printed in colours
In the vision, a grotesque god presides at a table covered with a cloth printed with the omote manji, a figure resembling a reversed swastika, symbolising infinite mercy.
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